Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 108

It was the nest I have told you of, floating on the lagoon, and the Never bird was sitting on it.

Who acts: sight, I, bird · What happens: be, tell, float, sit · To what, where: nest, you, lagoon, sight · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sight, I, bird), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 nest	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 nest	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 nest	det
4	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 told	nsubj
6	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 told	aux
7	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 nest	acl:relcl
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 told	iobj
9	of	of	ADP	_	7 told	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 floating	punct
11	floating	float	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 told	conj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 lagoon	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 lagoon	det
14	lagoon	lagoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 floating	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sitting	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 sitting	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bird	det
18	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 bird	advmod
19	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sitting	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 sitting	aux
21	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 nest	acl
22	on	on	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sitting	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 nest	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	sight	the nest			tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	present · perfect	I	the nest not said here	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	float	gerund	I not said here			the lagoon	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on lagoon=Trajectory
4	sit	past · progressive	the bird	the nest not said here		sight	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent nest=Theme on it=Location

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Project Gutenberg book 16 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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